Omeros.

WALCOTT, Derek.

Item Number: 4074

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, “To Quincy and Margaret love Derek San Diego/ La Jolla April 2000.” The recipients were Quincy Troupe and his wife, Margaret. Troupe is a an American poet, editor and biographer of Miles Davis. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Omeros is an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus. The title, which is Homer's name in Greek, nods to the wandering and exile of the great poet himself, who learned and suffered while traveling. "No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language, or the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us" (Mary Lefkowitz, The New York Times Book Review).